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marina_bonomi) wrote2012-08-20 06:02 pm
marina_bonomi) wrote2012-08-20 06:02 pm
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Pe'Sla Again
Since I first read about it a few days ago I've been following the 'Save Pe'Sla' IndieGoGo campaign, honestly with very mixed feelings:
Donations and support messages keeps coming in, true, but where is the public outrage at people scrambling to buy land that was stolen from them in the first place?
Where are all the advocates of religious freedom?
Where are all those guys and gals who went out of the movie theaters after seeing 'Dances with Wolves' declaring loudly that 'It is a shame how they were treated' and 'If it were for me...'?
Where are all the armchair warriors for minority rights?
Where are all the film-makers and writers that made millions off Native history and culture?
Where are all those who go 'Oh, their way of life and beliefs are so great, they are SOOO connected to the Earth, you know, I admire them a lot'?
I've seen more than one crowdfunding campaign for a videogame get overfunded by more than one million dollars in a few days, is justice less important than a videogame?
If you can't do anything else, just spread the world, there is still time if everybody does a little something.
My auction for Pe'Sla is still going on, see the last 4 posts in my journal.
Donations and support messages keeps coming in, true, but where is the public outrage at people scrambling to buy land that was stolen from them in the first place?
Where are all the advocates of religious freedom?
Where are all those guys and gals who went out of the movie theaters after seeing 'Dances with Wolves' declaring loudly that 'It is a shame how they were treated' and 'If it were for me...'?
Where are all the armchair warriors for minority rights?
Where are all the film-makers and writers that made millions off Native history and culture?
Where are all those who go 'Oh, their way of life and beliefs are so great, they are SOOO connected to the Earth, you know, I admire them a lot'?
I've seen more than one crowdfunding campaign for a videogame get overfunded by more than one million dollars in a few days, is justice less important than a videogame?
If you can't do anything else, just spread the world, there is still time if everybody does a little something.
My auction for Pe'Sla is still going on, see the last 4 posts in my journal.
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And yes, why are they having to raise money for this?
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The land was taken after the treaty of 1868 was broken, somebody on the campaign site asked how the land came to be privately owned, the answer is:
After the treaty of 1868 was violated by the US Government, they then passed new laws (Dawes Act), again violating their own laws, and parcelling out the Great Sioux Nation into allotments. Each Sioux (Lakota) head of household (men) was designated 160 acres and orphans or those under 18yo were designated 40 – 80 acres. The remainder of land was opened up to settlers to purchase, especially in the Black Hills where Custer’s expedition had found gold.
Here is a newspaper ad from 1911 (scroll down) http://www2.palomar.edu/users/ddozier/course_notes/concepts/histories/propaganda_machine.htm
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I'm still hoping for a miracle...
Pe'Sla
reppin' for Last Real Indians
Dana Lone Hill
Re: Pe'Sla
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In answer to your question, why the inactivity and lack of outrage? The answer: they haven't, in their history, lost land.
I donated immediately, RTed the link, and got a LOT of retweets. I'm in Ireland. I know it's a different group of Native Americans, but when the starving people in Mayo were turned away from the hunting lodge and left to die on the mountains, the Choctaw Indians raised money to help.
We don't forget, we who have lost land, or had it taken from us. That's not to say grudges are held - lots of water under the bridge now and we've had more than enough chances to f*** up all by ourselves - but we don't forget.
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I'm obviously not Native American myself, but I've always connected strongly with them, the Sioux Nation in particular. Knowing the situation in which many of them live and reading the efforts they are making for Pe'Sla is eating me from the inside.
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Yeah, the relationship with land defines *everything*. And it lasts for hundreds of years. Especially if the land has been plundered and the native balance disrupted as a result.
That's where our property crash came from.
Pe Sla - the hard questions and comments
Pe Sla the hard questions and comments